Buy Walking VideosTED Talks: Live Long Enough To Live Forever
I watched a couple of videos last week that really inspired me to eat healthy and exercise right now.
The first video is a talk by Alan Russell about medicine and the upcoming methods of making our bodies healthy again with regenerative medicine.
He said:
The richer we are, the longer we live. The older our population, the more expensive the diseases are to treat.
Diabetes is a debilitating disease. Why can’t we inject the pancreas with something that regenerates the pancreas and cures Diabetes?
We are learning how to switch on feature that our bodies could do when we were a fetus. A mammalian fetus, if it loses a limb in the first trimester of pregnancy, will regrow that limb. Our DNA has the capacity to do these sort of wound healing mechanisms.
In the future, medicine will be able to regenerate our bodies. This talk from Aubrey de Grey about how medicine could eventually get to the point where we could actually live forever.
It’s VERY important that we take the BEST care of our bodies now so that we can be the people who are able to take advantage of these technologies when they finally become available to all of us.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 am
I hope we don’t ever live forever. Can you imagine? The world would be overrun. I would like to live for a good long time, though, and be healthy. And then die in my sleep when I’m 102.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Living for ever is not our prime objective..its Quality living that should be our object..to certain extent a person with missing limb can certainly live a quality life if technology could rebuild it.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
If there is a heaven, I don’t want to live forever. If there isn’t, I want to live for a good loooooonnnnggg, approaching forever time. But only if the people I love can live that long too.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
If the technology comes, and it seems this is very likely, then it should be available to all who want it. To those who don’t, fine die in your sleep, but do not presume to say what the rest of us should or should not have. I am sure with the additional time we Would have, we will solve population issues but if we don’t then why should you worry about it? You’ll be dead. The moon and Mars are within our grasp, and if only we had the time,so are the stars.